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Rob Bell Resources

To follow up the Mosaic Movement Resources as promised, here’s some articles, audio’s and video’s for you Rob Bell fans. I’ve been downloading all of their sermons since back in 2002, but again, to be on the safe side, all links here are just what’s currently available on the web.

*Note, I only link to resources that are already available on the web and I don’t have a practice of distributing or re-distributing any content.

For those of you who aren’t up to speed on Rob and Mars Hill, I’d say they’re the Mac of the megachurch world. clean and simple. Rob Bell’s an excellent communicator who does his homework, especially with contextualizing ancient Jewish culture. Their church is legend for exploding by word of mouth as Bell preached through Leviticus the first year.

Nooma video’s have been the latest craze. People thought I was being silly for spending money on them a few years back. You can borrow them from me if you’re in the area.

I’ll try to keep this resource page up to date, let me know if there’s anything worthwhile that I’m missing. Feel free to share this link on your sites/blogs.

Rob Bell regarding SexGod on CNN
Five downloadable clips from Everything is Spiritual on iTunes
Rob Bell interview for the Evolving Church conference 2007
Clip from Sex God tour in MichiganVideo not of Rob Bell, but one of the “Way of the Master” guys in response to the Bullhorn Nooma.
Video by youthwork.co.uk did an excellent video interview with Rob Bell, asking tough questions on how the church really started, emergent labels, and not becoming Ted Haggard. Hosted by premier.tv here.

awesome stuff – thanks for posting it!
Msg #1 of that Communicating Christ in Contemporary Culture series is an incredible talk – I have given it away to a mess of people and listen to it every few months…..

wow, thanks for this. i heard the willow creek series once and am glad to have them at my disposal again, they were my first intro to rob and i loved them. i am going to the conference in january and am really, really pumped about it

thanks for all these links– some really great stuff out there! i was wondering if anyone has been able to listen to “mastering the art of living”? i downloaded the huge file, only to be asked for a password to unzip the file…

Thanks for listing all of this! I’m a big Rob Bell fan and I’m trying to gather a collection of his audio & video resources.

I missed the Flames of Heaven series at Mars Hill’s website. Is the one you have here the same but all in one file? The one from Mars Hill was at least a 2 part sermon series, of which I only have the first one.

Ryan, thanks for dropping by and letting me know about the broken links. I updated the few of the links, but some of them still look like they’re missing. I’m no media distributor, i only post them as I find them. If you really want them, you should look into purchasing them.

Lacey, thanks for the sharing! I just downloaded the pdf, i’ll be sure to be buying the book. I’ll be posting your contribution to the page in a moment!

hey i was wondering, if you might be able to email me a few messages from years past. I have a good total of the whole lot but am missing a few of them to complete series. Could you email me to let me know if you would be able to email them to me. thanks a ton, bill

Oh by the way i went to the sex god tour thing here at University of Michigan, very cool. Also they showed the new nooma called “YOU” which was very cool. He didn’t talk about his book at all but instead did a simple question and answer for an hour on anything you wanted to ask him. Some very cool questions with some of course fun answers. but if you get a chance it is a very cool event.
Bill

Matt thanks for dropping by, i just updated the link on the ‘everything is spiritual’ image to point to the original larger/clearer image.

Hey Bill, I’d love to see the event, but unfortunately i’m up in Canada and doesn’t look like he’ll be making any stops here. I could send you a few if there’s anything specific that you’re looking for but i’d rather just be the linker than a content distributor. Both the noomas and archived messages I bought myself… the sermon’s are only a buck each after all.

i found your site via one of stephen shields posts long ago. i just came across this resource page today. this is extensive! if i find anything else, i’ll be sure to send it to you. thanks for this. most of these i had found, but some are new.

Along with everyon else, thanks for your site. It has been mentioned before about “About Mastering the Art of Living”. Was it any good? Can it still be purchased? How as I can’t see it anywhere on MHBC website. I could call but I’m from Australia which makes it awkward.

PS I found the area on Mars Hill for ordering Mastering the Art of Living & have commenced to download the 15 messages. Look forward to listening to them. There are quite a few other messages on MHBC website (not the 12 most recent messages). Can anyone recommend any others that particulalry spoke to them? I know it’s an individual thing.

Mark,
The New Exodus series is a great one to listen to as well. It’s kind of the setup for what they’re doing now with XYZ.

To All:
I find that more and more I’m finding ways to apply what Rob is talking about from week to week. I’ll hear something, or have an idea for something for a youth program that relates back to something Rob said in a teaching. I would find it incredibly useful to have transcripts of the sermons to search through. Anyone else with me? Does anyone know of a place to get them currently?

Mark – A revolutionary Christmas is also a good series to purchase that I felt was very enlightening.

Dan – unless someone bootleg’s it, I don’t think there will be an official session available since it is a different Q&A in each stop of the tour.

Winston – Great idea. I’ve wrote some notes down as I’ve extracted material for my own teaching/learning, but I’ve never seen official transcripts. I can post some notes/quotes of my own up sometime as well.

I know Rob is about to embark on The Gods Aren’t Angry Tour. I seem to recall a sermon series of a similar title. I’ve done a lot of searching online and haven’t been able to find anything. Do you know of or have a series with a similar title? I’d love to listen to the sermon series if I could get my hands on it… Let me know if you can help…

Hey Sue – You’re right, Rob seems to typically tour with stuff he’s done during his regular sermon series, but I can’t quite pinpoint where this one is from…. might have to wait till the reviews to hear what it’s all about!

This is great. we went to listen to bell last night in seattle and i was stunned…so good. what a great teacher! thanks for these links. i hope you keep updating (in other words, do the hard work for the rest of us!). we are hoping he comes to canada next tour.